Stop the lying

5:42 AM,
Oct. 11, 2012

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IN OUR VIEW

The election season is wrought with half-truths and twisted statistics, all meant to make the candidate for whom the information is shared to look better with voters. It's gone on for years, and there's little reason to believe it will stop anytime soon.

But the American people do have a right to expect to get truthful information from its federal government. And what was shared Tuesday by the State Department is, without question, an outright lie.

It was Tuesday that State Department officials, when pressed by reporters, stated they had never concluded that the attacks on the U.S. consulate ...